Word: spirits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this most Dada of the Dadaists resigned from the group, ostensibly because Dada was beginning to develop certain rational theories which led to Surrealism. He collaborated on a ballet with Composer Erik Satie, on a brilliant movie, Entr'acte, with René Clair, and, in the true Dada spirit, accepted the rosette of the Legion of Honor. Wealthy and well advertised by Gertrude Stein, in the last few years Picabia has rested on his reputation, yachting and developing an elegantly fretful manner. Last week Paris was shocked at 60-year-old Yachtsman Picabia's latest show...
...living creatures are no more than highly coordinated systems of chemical and physical reactions was German-born Biologist Jacques Loeb. In 1899, by fertilizing sea-urchin eggs with chemicals and producing young larvae, he struck a heavy blow at the popular vitalistic theory which maintained that some intangible "vital spirit" or "entelechy" was necessary to life. Sixteen years later, he grew healthy tadpoles from frog eggs fertilized by a needle prick, showed his scientific opponents that no vital spirit from a male frog was necessary for creation of new life...
...smash hit overnight. Leave It to Me! is a good show, but far from a knockout. Dripping with fat moments, it too often relaxes that festive, madcap spirit, that no-slowing-down-for-curves tempo, that kettle-boiling-over excitement that mark the top-notch farce musical. But it has fast dancing and pretty girls. It has some beguiling, insouciant Cole Porter tunes, some pert cafe society Cole Porter lyrics. It has Sophie Tucker, who can make ambassadorial high-life so low-life that even her pearls seem to leer...
...Played both sides against the middle of the utilities issue. In the spirit of the newly proclaimed honeymoon (TIME, Nov. 7), RFC Chairman Jesse Jones said that he would have $250,000,000 available for "national defense" utility expansion loans. More in the old spirit of New Deal v. private utilities were four incidents of the week: 1) PWA agreed to lend an additional $3,279,000 for a municipal distributing system in Chattanooga (Commonwealth & Southern territory); 2) for $1,600,000, TVA and 22 cities bought West Tennessee Power & Light Co.'s distributing facilities; 3) in Collier...
When Dean Matthews characterized the chapel services as unique in their spirit of devotion, he summarized in that phrase the ideal for which Dean Sperry has been striving for many years. Compared with the compulsory chapel that is found in many other colleges, where everything from religion to the disposal of cigarette stubs is Discussed, Harvard's religious organization is certainly superior; but at the same time it is significant that the spirit which Dean Matthews found was as much due to the brilliance of its distinguished visitor as to characteristics inherent in chapel itself...